Season 5 Episode 9

Cotard’s Syndrome

Mark and Alex discuss the unique and odd band, The Shaggs as well as Cotard’s Syndrome or The Cotard delusion (also Cotard’s syndrome and walking corpse syndrome) which is described as

“is a rare mental illness in which an afflicted person holds the delusion that they are dead, either figuratively or literally; yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome proper.”